Radical times in France

Radical Times

Even just reading the word evokes a waterfall of thought. Wine. Cheese. Casual nudity. Croissants. Edible snails. More wine. Etc. Some of it’s cliché. Some of it’s correct. But all of it weaves together to create a mystique like nowhere else on earth.

We’re bringing the whole crew together to experience it all. Surfers, skaters, snowboarders, musicians and more. From Mike D of the Beastie Boys to Mike Feb of South Africa, we’re setting out to enjoy true France. We’re using ideas as our maps, inspiration as our atlas, and legends like Jeremy Flores as our eyes and ears. We’re going to do it right. And you’re coming with us.

Biarritz

You feel small here. Small and inspired. There’s a vibe in Biarritz that you can’t not feel, an intoxicating sense that this place means something. The air pulses with the energy of all the life that has been lived here. All the radical times of days past. You walk down ancient streets, in the shadows of ancient buildings, soaking it all in from the comfort of modernity. With each breath, the old world collides with the new. You might walk past a centuries-old sculpture and step straight into the swankiest place you’ve been in a minute. It really is a trip.

You are small here. And you are inspired — maybe even inspired enough to go for a surf ? Good. Because there are four-foot wedges exploding up and down the beach and, after all, that’s what brought you here to begin with.

MATT BANTING

RIO WAIDA

MIKEY FEBRUARY

CONNOR O’LEARY

Hossegor

This here’s the hub. Where you’ll rub elbows and clink glasses with people you know, people you’ve heard of and people you wish you’d known or heard of.

This is where the Quik Pro is, and where it’s been for fifteen years. Remember when Andy beat Bruce in the final? That was here. The best sandbars? Here. The hype, the buzz, the parties? Here, here and here.

This is where you’ll find your new favorite place to eat and the cute girl working behind the counter will get to know you by name, smiling every time you walk in. This is where you’re going to start to feel at home. Come on in.

ARITZ ARANBURU

RAMZI BOUKHIAM

ZEKE LAU

JESSE MENDES

MATT BANTING

LEO FIORAVANTI

MIKEY FEBRUARY

LEO FIORAVANTI

MARC LACOMARE

JEREMY FLORES

JEREMY FLORES

TIKA SMITH

WIGGOLLY DANTAS

JEREMY FLORES

JESSE MENDES

CONNOR O’LEARY

KANOA IGARASHI

JEREMY FLORES

BACKYARD SESSIONS

AUSTEN SWEETIN

ZACH MILLER

STEPH GILMORE

MAINEI KINIMAKA

YAGO DOMINGUEZ

BUSY P, MIKE D , DJ FALCON

QUIKSILVER PRO

It’s why you came. It’s why everyone came. From Matt Banting, who is competing in the event, to Busy P, who showed up just to play you a few tunes, the Quiksilver Pro France brought us all together. It gave thousands of us an excuse to experience France. Ironically, shortly after getting us all together, it’ll start prying people apart. Heat by heat, Round by Round, hopefuls will be knocked out of the competition. It’ll be big and small, hot and cold, calm and unruly, fast and slow, pumping, pulsing, perfect, so on and so forth. It’ll mean different things to different people. But to you, and to everyone else, it will be a radical time.